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... and vatic sayings that pretend to universal or transcendent knowledge are marks of the lyric as a genre. Sketching a theory of poetic license, this article addresses the lyrical entanglement of enchantment and embarrassment. The author argues for a concept of the lyric as a medium for regulating the balance...

... fantasy that I must know? In love's sweet riddle, truth and fiction wane, Yet still, I strive to understand love's reign. I am embarrassed to elaborate the obvious defects in this product: there had better be a significant moral to this exercise. I have to admit that in one sense the regular meter...

... of our fictional emotions are by their nature excessive because they are emotions about nobody, and yet the knowledge does not reform us. Our imagination of characters is, in this sense, absurd and (perhaps) legitimately embarrassing, but it is also constitutive of the genre” (Gallagher 2006: 352...

... into question (he never deployed to Vietnam), newspapers issued embarrassed corrections, and the story became too messy for easy virality (Lamothe 2019 ). Feeding into the symbolic utility of veterans and their stories is the widening gap between the military and the general public: less than 1 percent...

.... Tschechische Untergrund-Literatur 1948–1953 (Total Realism and Poetry of Embarrassment: Czech Underground Literature 1948–1953) (Vienna: Peter Lang). 2002 Totální realismus a trapná poezie. Česká neoficiální literatura 1948–1953 (Total Realism and Poetry of Embarrassment: Czech Underground...

... the embarrassed search for the mot juste for behavior which the straight bu- reaucrat finds simply indescribable. The bureaucrat holds the behavior in question at a distasteful distance through the use of ‘‘that’’ (= ‘‘you know what I mean ‘‘they’’ instead of ‘‘homosexuals and so on, unwittingly departing from...

... with stories about his life as a separated man. One comically embarrass- ing surprise after another is thereby produced about his behavior. A police report states, for example, that he entered with a pair of scissors into the bedroom of his former wife’s tennis coach (who turned out to be gay...

... it alludes to and adapts the techniques of) a song on Jewish American standup comedian Belle Barth's 1960 humor album If I Embarrass You Tell Your Friends , also about STIs. “Chanukah Honey” parodies the 1953 song “Santa Baby” by adding new lyrics with specific references to Jewish American culture...

..., irritation, and embarrassment from the socially mixed group. Hardy foregrounds Stephen’s adolescent embarrassment, empha- sizing the social sensitivities of a child who feels he has outgrown his par- ents’ social circle. Hardy calls here on situational empathy, a variety of empathy that requires little...

... have been, he was still compelled to put on a performance that was origi- nary in its ambitions and embarrassing in its excesses. This suggests both that he felt his authority to be transient and that revolutionary impulses can...

... into line. Since I admire the James lectures most for what takes them out of line, I consider it not an embarrassment but a point of pride that I don’t read them 6104 Poetics Today / 21:2 / sheet 164 of 214 like a philosopher. Gorman (ibid...

... der Römischen Welt II.36.2 , edited by Wolfgang Haase, 1176 -1243 (Berlin: De Gruyter). Sluiter, Ineke 1995 “The Embarrassment of Imperfection: Galen's Assessment of Hippocrates' Linguistic Merits,” Clio Medica 28 : 519 -53. 1999 “Commentaries and the Didactic Tradition,” in Most...

... that the number of topic jumps in this short scene demonstrates the desire of the characters to keep the conversation ticking along and to avoid embarrassing silences. Similarly, while on one level the absence of identi- fying markers distances us from the speakers and sharpens our impression of them as mere...

... something of an embarrassment; it will steadily prove more so. It is important to realize that having one foot in cognitive neuroscience does not mean uncritically adopting the ideas of cognitive neuroscien- tists for recycling within literary studies. On the contrary, trade goes both ways...

... understanding of what it is to blush, not from a logical con- clusion that the person is embarrassed because the reader has knowledge that those who blush are embarrassed. Some psychologists might call a response like this “empathic” (see, for example, Overy and Molnar-Szakacs 2009); this should...

... will be easy to read. To avoid embarrassment I lock my diary up in a small cashbox” (Tanizaki 2000 : 35–36). The diary is itself a pleasurable secret. It is also, as I have already a suggested, a way to create a sense of coherent identity and to navigate and capture the erotic possibilities of old age...

... not embarrassed to expose my tentative typologies to scrutiny, because the value of any typology, adequate and in- . For example, one of the Virtual Muse poems is a medley of tonally shifting monologues, re- calling Ashbery’s ‘‘Fantasia...

...) to the information monopoly enjoyed by the state in a one-party political system. It has been an embarrassment, however, not just to the censor, but also to the critic wishing to pin down its categorical distinction: its “samizdatedness,” to recycle Roman Jakobson’s venerable concept. The formal properties...

... in different directions with manic enthu- siasm. The second floor of the cinema had large windows looking down on the street, and the public waiting for the film stared in amazement at the scene below; some people smiled embarrassed; some were outraged. A scandal was in the air: “a group of people ran...

... poetry from prose, and virtually the entire tradition denies and in fact defends against the possibility that the rules of verse do in fact consti- tute poetry. From Aristotle on, that equation of bard with timekeeper has embarrassed both poet and theorist; verse has always seemed too slender a reed...